Agricultural abandonment

Post-Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine
Land use is a critical factor in the global carbon cycle, but land-use effects on carbon fluxes are poorly understood in many regions. …
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Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl
Land use change is a principal force and inherent element of global environmental change, threatening biodiversity, natural ecosystems, …
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Causes of Cropland Abandonment During the Post-socialist Transition in Southern Romania
We analyzed the causes of cropland abandonment in Argeş County, Romania, after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989. Cropland changes …
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Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread …
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Lost in transition: determinants of post-socialist cropland abandonment in Romania
The transition from command to market-oriented economies drastically affected land ownership and land management in Eastern Europe and …
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Reforestation in Central and Eastern Europe After the Breakdown of Socialism
The transition in Eastern Europe from command-driven to market-oriented economies brought about a sudden decline in agricultural …
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Cross-border Comparison of Post-socialist Farmland Abandonment in the Carpathians
Agricultural areas are declining in many areas of the world, often because socio-economic and political changes make agriculture less …
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Post-socialist land use change in the Carpathians
Broad-scale political and socio-economic conditions are powerful determinants of land use change. Yet, their relative importance is …
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Cross-border comparison of land cover and landscape pattern in Eastern Europe using a hybrid classification technique
Eastern Europe has experienced drastic changes in political and economic conditions following the breakdown of the Soviet Union. …
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Separating grassland and shrub vegetation by multidate pixel-adaptive spectral mixture analysis
Monitoring and assessment of land degradation and the processes driving it require effective change indicators at appropriate scales …
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